GMES Masters competition now open

The GMES Masters competition, which calls for new ideas and services for the best use of Earth observation data from Europe's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme, is now open.

Open until 15 September 2011, the competition aims to encourage students, researchers, entrepreneurs, start-up companies and small and medium enterprises to develop new applications for data from the GMES initiative.

The competition has been launched in a collaborative effort by ESA, the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, the German Aerospace Center DLR, T-Systems and Anwendungszentrum Oberpfaffenhofen.